Submissions are now closed!

We're the festival that filmmakers love.You've worked hard to make your film. Now it's time to share it with a great audience inside a beautiful theater and experience firsthand why MovieMaker Magazine calls us one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World!

BUT, you will have to wait until next year. Submissions for the 2017 Phoenix Film Festival are now closed. Selections will be announced mid-February 2017.

Submissions for the 2018 Phoenix Film Festival will open in August 2017.

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The Phoenix Film Festival is pure heaven for any filmmaker!
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—
Whitney Ransick, Director of "Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery"

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The people of the Phoenix Film Festival seem to instinctively know what filmmakers need.
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The Phoenix Film Festival is a program under the 501(c)3 non-profit organization Phoenix Film Foundation, and is a sibling of the Phoenix Film Society, the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, IFP/Phoenix, the Arizona Student Film Festival and the Phoenix Critics Circle. Our mission is to support and develop the artistic appreciation, educational opportunities and growth of independent film within Arizona. The Foundation's primary functions through its programs are to promote the exhibition of independent films and conduct educational programs that teach the art of filmmaking